Once the Pats were ahead there was no reason to totally open up the play book. Even if Jets had punted after each of those series or scored a fg/td on the int. drive,based on the lack of emotion and focus all game on the Jets part. There was no reason not to believe the Pats would not drive down the field and score. The WHAT IFS mean nothing in the NFL because each play and series there after has changed.
The pats dug a little deeper after the first game and came out a better prepared team and it showed.

I'm not sure why that's so difficult to understand. You just go vanilla. You run the ball to kill the clock and pass to get a first down. On defense, you give up the run and the passing lanes in the middle and underneath to keep the clock moving. It's not rocket science.

I want to know where is the OUTRAGE at that scumbag Coughlin who ran up the score and kept Eli in and still throwing the ball on 4th and 1 from the goal line at the end of a 38-10 game?! The team plane should go down in flames killing everyone on board!!! That karma would be just deserts.

How come you had to come from behind in the 4th quarter at Gillette to eek out a 3 point win in overtime against the 28th rated team in the NFL then? How come the point differential in the last game was only 2 points without the turnovers there to help you?

Face it, you may be 8-3 but you have a seriously flawed team. Your defense just let Mark Sanchez roll up 300+ yards against you. If Mark Sanchez can do that what will Peyton Manning do to you in the playoffs?

Great, you beat the Jets on turnovers... You'll make the playoffs... But to assume you're going anywhere once you get there is a pipedream. The first team you meet with a bigtime QB and you are going home with a really really bad loss. Have fun the rest of the season, because it all ends for you in the playoffs. Once more year and no Superbowl for Billy either.

Mark Sanchez put up 300 yards in GARBAGE TIME. Peyton Manning has already went up against New England and LOST. He put up GARBAGE TIME numbers in that game as well. New England has three loses by a combined FOUR points. FOUR.

The **** is wrong with you? Unless they see the Giants or 49ers in the Super Bowl, chalk up a fourth ring for Belichick.

Mark Sanchez put up 300 yards in GARBAGE TIME. Peyton Manning has already went up against New England and LOST. He put up GARBAGE TIME numbers in that game as well. New England has three loses by a combined FOUR points. FOUR.

The **** is wrong with you? Unless they see the Giants or 49ers in the Super Bowl, chalk up a fourth ring for Belichick.

I wouldn't even say that. I just don't understand how you lose at a game that lopsided and start mocking the winning team's shortcomings.

I don't think any Pats fan is saying the Pats are invincible but he's spending more time trying to convince people that the season comes down to a few lucky plays or the Pats are picking first in next year's draft.

I don't think any Pats fan is saying the Pats are invincible but he's spending more time trying to convince people that the season comes down to a few lucky plays or the Pats are picking first in next year's draft.

That's just DWC's inferiority complex.

I remember his pre-season gem thread (I wish someone could dig that beauty up) where he was adamant that the Jets would sweep the Pats, win the AFCE, have the #1 defense in the NFL, Coples would win DPOY, Hill would win OPOY and Sanchez would be a top 10 QB.

I want to know where is the OUTRAGE at that scumbag Coughlin who ran up the score and kept Eli in and still throwing the ball on 4th and 1 from the goal line at the end of a 38-10 game?! The team plane should go down in flames killing everyone on board!!! That karma would be just deserts.

I think the OP has uncovered something that no one has ever discovered before: if you win the turnover battle, you are more likely to win the game. In all my years of watching football, I have never even though of this. I have never heard a single analyst ever bring up this point.

Anyone else ever do any research on this subject? Is the original poster right and that winning the turnover battle can affect the game or is this just another crack pot theory like the team that scores the most points usually wins the game?

I remember his pre-season gem thread (I wish someone could dig that beauty up) where he was adamant that the Jets would sweep the Pats, win the AFCE, have the #1 defense in the NFL, Coples would win DPOY, Hill would win OPOY and Sanchez would be a top 10 QB.

Billy, you forgot to add the 28 points that the Jets obviously would've scored on each of those drives if they didn't turn it over. So, really, the Jets won by 26. Dang ... I was feeling pretty good about that game until you opened my eyes.